Join us on Thursday, June 26, 2025, for a LUNCH (12:00-1:30pm) meeting at The View (1071 Celestial St, 45202), for a program with Elizabeth P. Schlaudecker, Clinical Medical Director, Division of Infectious Disease.

Elizabeth Schlaudecker, MD, MPH, FPIDS, FAAP, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Global Health Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC). She also serves as the Medical Director for the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Associate Director of the Pediatric Residency Global Health Pathway at CCHMC. Her primary research interests focus on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. In particular, her research aims to prevent respiratory viruses in infants and children via maternal vaccination. As an investigator for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) project and New Vaccine Surveillance Network (NVSN), she monitors and investigates the safety of vaccines and seeks to assess pediatric viral respiratory and gastrointestinal infections and vaccine impact in children.

For her role in investigating the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, she received the CDC’s Charles C. Shepard Science Award in 2023 for the most outstanding peer-reviewed research paper. Dr. Schlaudecker was awarded the Optime Magistrum Award (Most Excellent Teacher) in 2017 and 2019 at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine for teaching about the prevention of infectious diseases via vaccines. She was awarded a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health in 2009. During this fellowship, she studied the etiology of viral respiratory infections in Honduran children less than five years of age. In 2011, she was granted the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Blue Ribbon Research award for maternal vaccine research in Bangladesh.

Her maternal influenza vaccine research has been supported by the Procter Scholars award, a K12 Child Health Research Career Development Award (CHRCDA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and an NIH-funded collaborative agreement to improve our understanding of the immunological responses to an infant’s initial influenza exposure. She is the chair of the Global Health Committee for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and a board member for the World Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, as well as a member of other committees and working groups seeking to promote the safety of vaccines and the prevention of respiratory infections.

Coincidentally, Dr. Liz led our Rotary Club book discussion for our January Women In Rotary event!

RSVPs are required to attend, whether you are eating lunch or not, so if you would like to attend, please click HERE by 5:00 p.m., Friday, June 20, 2025, or contact [email protected]. If you are not a current member of the Rotary Club of Cincinnati, please note lunches are $30, and payment will be collected at the door via cash, check, or credit card.  Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions.

Meal Choices – 

Regular Entrée: Southwest chicken stuffed peppers w/cilantro lime rice & roasted zucchini.

Salad Entrée: Flank steak salad w/romaine, tomato, cucumbers, bleu cheese, & vinaigrette.

Vegetarian Entrée: Seasonal ratatouille, wild rice pilaf & green beans.